Monday, 18 October 2010

Be Inspired #3

Bismillah hir Rahman nir Raheem.
Asalamualaykum.

The people who love the life of this world have left it without tasting the best thing therein." 
He was asked: "What is that?" 
He answered: "Knowledge of the All-Mighty Allah
 
Scholar Name: Malik ibn Dinar

If you have the means to seek knowledge DO SO...on Islam inshaAllah...

Abdullah ibn Al-Mubarak used to often stay at home alone, 
so he was asked, “Don’t you get lonely?”
He replied, “How could I get lonely when I am with the Prophet – Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him (i.e. I read his hadith)?”

Scholar Name: Abdullah ibn Al-Mubarak

Learning fills solitude

A man will never fear something besides Allah unless it be due to a disease in his heart.
Scholar Name: Ibn Taymiyyah

'Purification of the heart' by 'Hamza Yusuf' is a great book to read on how to purify ones heart inshaAllah

And verily for everything that a slave loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allah will never find anything to replace Him.
Scholar Name: Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyyah

Allah the Almighty the Most High is the only One who can make our empty hearts and souls full...nothing else can! Turn to Allah always!

Beware of speaking about Allah, the Most High, without knowledge.
Scholar Name: 'Abdul-'Aziz ibn Baaz

If you have knowledge you cannot go wrong inshaAllah...but if you don't have knowledge there is room for mistake! BE AWARE of what you say and how you say it...

Hopes of forgiveness have deceived some people until they left the world as bankrupts, that is devoid of good works.
Scholar Name: Al-Hasan Al-Basree



Do not detest the misfortunes that befall you, for what you detest may be the cause of your salvation and what you like may be the cause of your ruin.
Scholar Name: Al-Hasan Al-Basree



In our view, a person does not have an understanding of the religion until he thinks of a hardship as being a blessing, and a comfort and luxury as being a hardship. 
Scholar Name: Sufyaan Ath Thawree

Hardship makes you realise spiritually...comfort and luxrury sometimes make you forget...

You build that which you will not live in; you work and work and you die in them. You gather up that which you will not consume and you have hopes which you will never have. The people before you got deceived by the dunya (world) so they gathered up homes and wealth…and all it did was take them away from the akhira (afterlife).
Scholar Name: Abu Ad-Darda'

Our eternal homes are in the akirah! That is what WE SHOULD BE working for!

Yearning for Allah and His meeting is like the gentle breeze blowing upon the heart, extinguishing the blaze of the Dunya. Whosoever caused his heart to settle with his Lord shall be in a state, calm and tranquil, and whosoever sent it amongst the people shall be disturbed and excessively perturbed.
Scholar Name: Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyyah





May Allah forgive us all Amin.

Saturday, 16 October 2010

Why Hijab?!

Bismillah hir Rahman nir Raheem.
Asalamualaykum.

This is a nasheed that is so inspiring Alhamdulilah the lyrics just say it all...
[The veil by dawud warnsby]


They say, 'Oh, poor girl, you're so beautiful you know
It's a shame that you cover up your beauty so.'

Why do you wear the hijab?

She just smiles and graciously responds reassuringly,
'This beauty that I have is just one simple part of me.
This body that I have, no stranger has the right to see.
These long clothes, this shawl I wear, ensure my modesty.
Faith is more essential than fashion, wouldn't you agree?'

This hijab,
This mark of piety,
Is an act of faith, a symbol,
For all the world to see.
A simple cloth, to protect her dignity.

So lift the veil from your heart to see the heart of purity.

They tell her, 'Girl, don't you know this is the West and you are free?
You don't need to be oppressed, ashamed of your femininity.'

She just shakes her head and she speaks so assuredly,
'See the bill-boards and the magazines that line the check-out isles,
with their phony painted faces and their air-brushed smiles?
Well their sheer clothes and low cut gowns they are really not for me.
You call it freedom, I call it anarchy.'

This hijab,
This mark of piety,
Is an act of faith, a symbol,
For all the world to see.
A simple cloth, to protect her dignity.

So lift the veil from your heart to see the heart of purity.
Lift the veil from your heart and seek the heart of purity.


I feel liberated because I wear the hijab- Allahuakbar!

Thursday, 14 October 2010

Be Inspired #2

Bismillah hir Rahman nir Raheem.
Asalamualaykum.

All humans are dead except those who have knowledge. And all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds. And those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere. And those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.
Scholar Name: Imam Ash-Shaafi'ee

Are you awake? Are you alive? Are you following Islam?

A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah.
Scholar Name: Ibn Taymiyyah

Allahuakbar!

Be aware of every hour and how it passes and only spend it in the best possible way; do not neglect yourself, but keep accustomed to the noblest and best of actions, and send to your grave that which will please you when you arrive to it.
Scholar Name: Imaam ibn Al-Jawzee

Think...Death could be right around the corner...

Allah will never humiliate the one who takes his Lord as friend and patron.
Scholar Name: Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyyah

turn to Allah the Almighty-always inshaAllah

Beware of following your brother just because he agrees with you over an opinion and oppose another because he disagrees with you over an opinion or an issue.
Scholar Name: 'Abdul-'Aziz ibn Baaz

don't hate anybody...for hate is a useless emotion that leads to destruction...

And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill this emptiness.
Scholar Name: Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyyah

The heart is only happy when one turns to Allah the Almighty...

Deeds without sincerity are like a traveler who carries in his water-jug dirt. The carrying of it burdens him and it brings no benefit.
Scholar Name: Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyyah

Be sincere

I showed humility as a student, so I was given respect as a teacher.
Scholar Name: Ibn Abbas

showing humility is a virtue in itself inshaAllah

Wednesday, 13 October 2010

Be Inspired #1

Bismillah hir Rahman nir Raheem.
Asalamualaykum.

"Get yourself out of this limited world of diseases to the wide world of the hereafter, which has what the eyes have never seen. Nothing is impossible there, and love is not lost."
Scholar: Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyyah

open your heart to Islam

"If you can be unknown, be so; it doesn’t matter if you are not known and it doesn’t matter if you are not praised. It doesn’t matter if you are blameworthy according to people, if you are praiseworthy with Allâh the Mighty and Majestic."
Scholar: Al-Fudayl ibn 'Iyaad

Open your heart to peace

"The heart will rest and feel relief if it is settled with Allah and it will worry and be anxious if it is settled with people."
Scholar: Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyyah

A wise man thinks himself a fool...a fool thinks himself wise

"The roots of evil are three: Arrogance, Envy, and Greed. Arrogance prevented Satan from bowing, Envy led Cane to kill Abel, and Greed took Adam out of Paradise."
Scholar: Al-Hasan Al-Basree

know your roots...

A man once asked Abu Hurayrah – Allah be pleased with him, ‘What is al-taqwa?” He replied, “Have you ever taken a path filled with thorns?” 
The man replied, “I have.” 
Abu Hurayrah asked him, “What did you do?” 
He replied, “When I saw a thorn I would dodge it or pass over it or behind it.” 
Abu Hurayrah said, “That is al-taqwa.”

Scholar: Abu Hurayrah

Be wise...

"Become a scholar if you are able. If you are not able, then be a student. If you can not, then show love for them. If you are unable to do that, then (at least) do not hate them."
Scholar: 'Umar ibn 'Abdil-'Azeez

The ink of a scholar is more sacred than the blood of a martyr

"Allah has placed ease and happiness in certainty of faith and contentment. He has placed worry and misery in discontent and doubt."
Scholar Name: Sa'eed ibn Jubayr